The opening event of the Unsound Festival New York is at the David Rubenstein Atrium on December 1, with two leading voices of the Polish avant-garde scene. Guitarist Raphael Rogiński is an expert improviser who draws from jazz, blues, and folk traditions from across the globe. Rogiński’s key inspirations lie in his Jewish roots and the American outsider audio art of experimental composers and performers like Harry Partch, John Fahey and Henry Cowell. For this performance, he’ll present his interpretations of John Coltrane classics as well as his new Unsound-commissioned project Žaltys, inspired by Lithuanian mythology. The ambient and experimental artist Martyna Basta opens the evening with a set of delicate atmospheric sound that Pitchfork calls “enchantingly enigmatic.”
